Cauliflower
Sow in November, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹33,000–₹49,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹4,000 to a profit of ₹12,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 10–25 °C on average, and survives 5–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Nov 19 °C / 8 °C
- Dec 16 °C / 5 °C
- Jan 13 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 17 °C / 6 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cauliflower: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 41 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹1,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹900 2021
- ₹1,220 2022
- ₹1,000 2023
- ₹1,280 2024
- ₹1,190 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹37,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.